Bücher der Reihe Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century Sout

Accounts of racial discrimination in transportation have focused on trains, buses, and streetcars. It is essential to add aeroplanes and airports to this narrative, says Anke Ortlepp. Jim Crow terminals, Ortlepp shows us, were both spatial expressions of sweeping change and sites of confrontation over the re-negotiation of racial identities.